Jap War Lords Shout Banzai Before Deaths
Tokyo reports Hideki Tojo and three of his war colleagues shouted banzai before their hangings at Sugamo prison. The priest Hanayama described Tojo and three others as jaunty, with Tojo offering a final Buddha rosary gesture. A last meal was requested and a farewell note, while bells tolled for world peace.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Sugamo
Sri Hanayama
Tojo
Oh Sons
Apne & SS Cees
Seartes
Prem Seo
China
Kores
Seisjiro Itagaki
Korea
Hanayama
Uison
Belis
Japan
Gen MacArthur
Child Seeks Dog Missing Two Days For Christmas
A four year old girl Pam Schell of 413 Adams Street pleads for the return of her springer spaniel Mac who has been missing since Tuesday. The family appeals for help to find the brown and white dog before Christmas.
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Pam Schell
Adams Street
Mac
Executed Japanese Leaders Cremated After Trials
At 12:01 to 12:20 a.m. seven top figures linked to Tojo were executed after trials. Gen Kenji Doihara Gen Kane Matsui Gen Akira Muto Gen Itagaki and Hirota were among the names. Newsmen were barred as ashes were scattered to prevent graves or enshrinement.
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Tojo
Kenji Doihara
Acos
Kane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
War Ministry
Itagakee
Jo Ae
Hirota
MacArthur
Central Holds Alumni Dance at High School Event
Central High School hosted its first alumni dance during the holiday season with Toby Whitlock named homecoming queen and a court including Alice Bires La Vonne Melby Irene Rediske Joyce Riuist Toni Modah and Norma Spangler. Larry Zieman's orchestra provided music for about 550 invitations mailed to recent graduates.
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Central High School
Central
Tral
Toby Whitlock
Alice Bires
la Vonne Melby
Irene Rediske
Joyce Ri Uist
Toni Modah
Norma Spangler
Miss Wiley
Charles Huber
Corrine Frey
Jack Ramlo
Joan Hurt
Patty Ramier
Dick Ross
Barbara Larson
Gretchen Schubert
Ruth Westerlund
Christmas mail route hazard injures Lockport student
Peter Clifford a 20 year old college student and part time mail carrier was struck by a note flying finger during the Christmas rush in Lockport New York. Clifford was reaching for the mail when the incident occurred.
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Lockport
N. Y
Peter Clifford
Clifford
Death notices for Ole H Kirking and others in Wisconsin
Obituaries from Wisconsin brief notices report Ole H Kirking of Westby dying December 22 at 86, with service planned for December 24 in Spring Grove, plus brief death reports for Robert Roy, Cecil Murphy, William Hagestad, Albert Wing, and other relatives across Viroqua Tomah Whitehall Chaseburg with funeral details and locations.
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Westby
Wis
Ole H. Kirking
Viroqua
W Kirking
Gulbransdalen
Norway
America
la Crosse
Gina Borgen
Henry
Idaho
Albert
Selmer
Nordahl
Cash
Oscar
Clarence
Harry
Malla) Hanson
Wil- Prucha
Elvena
Halte
Ponesal Coriiess
Funeral arrangements following obituary note
Friends may call at the Hellwig Moris Funeral home Saturday afternoon and evening.
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Tery
Hellwig-Morris Funeral Home
Hellwig-Morris
Paustian
Barre Mills
Oak Grove Cemetery
Wisconsin Girl Fulfills Last Christmas Wish With Watermelon
Twelve year old Lucille Dunning died yesterday after expressing a wish for watermelon. Madison markets failed to find a melon but a chain store executive and a railroad cooperative shipped one from Chicago, arriving days before her death.
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Madison
Wis
Lucille Dunning
Chicago
Weather Record Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Iowa region report
Fair in the north and mostly cloudy in the south with intermittent light snow in the extreme south tonight and most of Friday. Warmer conditions followed by variable cloudiness. For Minnesota and Iowa expect mainly cloudy this evening and Friday with intermittent light snow in southern portions. Radius 15 miles of La Crosse. 36 hour period protects shipments to the north for 8 hours west for 12 hours south and east for 16 hours.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
le Crosse
River Readings Weather Update
An extensive high pressure system dominates the central portions of the region. Cooler air moves in from the west as far east as southwestern Iowa. Precipitation amounts remain light and unseasonably mild conditions persist in the Gullette area with warmer readings reported yesterday.
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Caines
Yejowseone
Newa
Wehs
Iowa
Obituaries Of Wells Hilke Roubik And Others In La Crosse
Obituary notices list Arthur G. Wells 54 of 215 South Eidith Street dying at a local hospital. Funeral services set for 8 p m Thursday at Nelson Funeral Home and Friday at Melrose with burial in Melrose. Mary Hilke 81 of 1328 Fifth Avenue South dies in hospital with survivors including daughter Louise Schwartz and others. John T. Roubik 67 former La Crosse resident died in Milwaukee December 18 with services held there and burial at Mount Olivet. Additional notes include Wells employed by Gate Way Transfer, and Roubik dates and family connections.
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Arthur G. Wells
South Eidith Street
Nelson Funeral Home
Melrose
Harold Stoffel
Melrose Sons
George
H Minn
la Crosse
Richard Johnson
Cora Har- Suring
Wis
Hazel Wiss
Black River Falls
Mary Hilke
Fifth Avenue South
Louise Schwartz
William
St. Senants Ridge
Laura Jankie
William Eckert
Ettrick
John T. Roubik
Milwaukee
Mount Olivet
Lydia Rydzik
Lucille Stone
John
Arthur
Rudolph
Mary Papacek
Joseph
The
Engineers Attend County Highway Institute at Minnesota
Lewis S. Shepard Houston county engineer attended the University of Minnesota center for continuation study institute for county highway engineers held recently.
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Caledonia
Minn
Lewis S. Shepard
Houston
Institute For County Highway Engineers
University of Minnesota Center For
Gypsum Output From Great Lakes Strips World
The article notes that enough gypsum wallboard has been produced from Great Lakes sources to form a strip eight feet wide that could go twice around the earth, highlighting vast production scales.
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Great Lakes
Congress May Raise President's Pay For First Time In 40 Years
Washington awaits a Senate bill to boost the president’s salary to 100000 a year with a 25000 raise and a 50000 expense addition. The measure would also raise top officials salaries and give small boosts to thousands of district and forest service workers. If enacted before the inauguration it would be the first president pay raise since 1909.
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Washington
Congress
Harry S. Truman
Senate Civil Service
Truman
William Howard Taft
House
District of Columbia and
Forest Service
Flanders
R-Vi
Foreign Service
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Senate
White House
Milk Truck Crash Noses Dow ntown Mess During Holiday Mixup
Police report a downtown intersection cleanup after a fully laden milk truck carrying Christmas makings collided with a rubbish truck. The incident left a chaotic spill of milk batter eggs and butter, with authorities describing the scene as an awful mess.
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Los Angeles
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